Tag Archives: Privacy

In Chrome, it is very easy to delete your browsing history. Just type chrome://history/ on your browser’s address bar or simply enter Ctrl + H. You’ll then see your complete list of browsing history. Just click “Clear browsing dat...

The recent development in Internet privacy has me worrying about the future. Why? Apparently a new ruling by a New York judge said that US search warrants can be applied to e-mail accounts and other digital data even if they (the...

There are a lot of talks about privacy and security whether online or offline. We recently heard about a US judge ruling that it’s okay for the government to check on an e-mail account even if stored outside the US as long there ...

These days, most major companies like Google have readily available transparency reports for the public to see. They contain details like how many requests for data were issued in a given time period, or the legal process behind ...

The world is slowly becoming a place where privacy does not matter, where people get to wear fancy glasses with cameras ready to take your picture. Well, you can fight back if you have $14.99 to spare by purchasing, Justice Cap.
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Shawn Buckles, who is a student in Norway, has decided to sell all of his personal information, as a statement about the lack of privacy that is going on these days.
“Yes, I am entirely serious,” Buckles said to Wired...

Google has a ton of great services. I’m sure most dotTechies have used Google or its services at least once at some point in their life. This article shares with you 10 useful Google links that everyone should know. Read on ...

Locating a person via Twitter is usually only possible if that person uses geotags in their Tweets. (Geotags in Twitter are basically tags that provide your geographic location.) However, the boys at IBM managed to bypass the geo...

Shortly after Microsoft admitted that it read through a journalist’s Hotmail email account without permission to track down a leak, the company scrambled to change its email policies and avoid even more public backlash. Whi...

The U.S. government has never been quiet about their suspicions concerning the Chinese company Huawei, believing them to be a security risk, but it seems that the National Security Agency (NSA) has also been spying on the company...

An internal investigation conducted by Microsoft into one of their (ex)employees — Alex Kibkalo, who leaked a Microsoft-internal Activation Server SDK as well as pre-release updates for Windows RT — has raised concern...

According to a paper called DeepFace that was published on Facebook’s site, the social network has created facial recognition software that has a 97% success rate.
While many facial recognition programs are far from accurate...

According to Rajesh De, a senior lawyer at National Security Agency (NSA), big tech companies like Google and Yahoo were aware of mass data collection by the NSA and provided NSA with complete assistance during the process.
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Google made an announcement on its blog today that is sure to make most if not all Gmail users happy. Amidst all the news on government surveillance, Google will now be enhancing its encryption for Gmail. Whenever a user checks t...